TOOLS: blogging tools

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So, what’s my current situation concerning the blogging tools?

Blogger and comments

I’m still using Blogger, but without the new comments functionality. I will surely continue to use the Holker’s blogkomm tool. Why?

  • No possibility to customize deeply your comments’ part (for the writing of comments).
  • The posting of non-anonymous comments requires a (free) registration in Blogger linked with the definition of your profile (too long!), which is to my mind a KO-criterion.
  • More on the technical side, I don’t like the idea of having the comments stored by Blogger, although the rest of my weblog is saved by another ISP.
  • It’s not important for me but you cannot have a comments interface in another language as English.

All in all, as I said, I will stay on blogkomm. One comment as a conclusion: in the past version of Blogger, there was a section dedicated to comments in the Blogger’s FAQ. I found blogkomm thanks to this input. This section (with all the other comments’ possibilities) disappeared in the new version, although Blogger is not covering the minimum requirements (to my mind!) in the field of comment. A strange thanx from Blogger to all the people who contributed to fill its comment functionalities’ gap…..

You can find more information / other inputs and views on the following two posts:

  • from Holker
  • from Le Danois

    • Feed reader with posting functionality

    Based on an advice from Nathan (Synop), I am now testing Sauce Reader, which is quite cool (first impression!). This post is actually coming from the publishing component of Sauce Reader. First feedback:

    • you have to be first online to be able to define your account. and without account, no possibility to save your posts…
    • some strange side effects when you navigate between the design-code-preview sections (version in the three section is not correctly synchronized => possible bug, I will check)
    • on the other side, the interface is great, very easy-to-use
    • the most important posting functionalities are present (also for offline writing)
    • no bullshit annoying style/font/… added in the code, good point
    • i will test the posting of images later (which is always the Achille’s heel of such tools)

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